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Rachmaninoff’s fast recording of this sonata’s third movement grows to a roar that, after a tranquil trio, resumes at a roar then recedes. A final fortissimo is the only dynamic in this sonata’s presto, whose single line drifts up and down in unpedaled sotto voce e legato triplet 8th notes (15[1])“gossiping in unison.” Some editions lack a repeat sign between this sonata’s 4-bar grave (“gra-vay”) introduction (-5[2])and doppio (-5[2])movimento. This sonata’s 1½-minute perpetuum mobile (-5[1])(“MO-bee-lay”) finale was called the first atonal piece by Ligeti, “wind howling (*) around graves” by Arthur Rubinstein, and (-5[1])sphinxlike by Schumann, who derided the composer’s discomfort with form and said this sonata “bound together his four unruliest children.” Its third movement, inspired by Beethoven’s 12th, is a morbid cortège in B-flat minor. For 10 points, what middle piano sonata written at George Sand’s house (10[1])contains a march that was played at (10[1])the composer’s (10[1])own funeral? ■END■ (10[5]0[7])

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